How do I find a static raid group?

[Ashkendor]

This is very true and very demoralizing at the same time. Why is it that people are looking more to exclude people than include them? Why can't it be a team of equals, instead of "elite vs casual"?

What about that statement says anything about excluding people or elitism? He's saying it's worth your time to invest in players with slightly lower item levels and help them gear up for the content as it can be easier than trying to convince players with equal item levels (who may already have networks and/or groups of their own) to join you. What exactly is demoralizing about this sentiment? Seriously, that's such a negative way to view it. ._.

And reddit is suppoed be better in what way? It is just more forums of gibberish. Is this not the primary FFXIV forums? Shouldn't straight forward stuff like finding a static happen here on these forums?

The reddit community is probably a lot more active than the official forum community because reddit isn't just about FFXIV. People are on reddit already for other things, and happen to include FFXIV in the groups that they post in.

[Krr]

If you're on T5, buy your way up to T10 (or whatever your server's pug progression curve sits at) or find an FC that is actually willing to help you.

Strut your stuff there in PF. Post ads on your local server forums, reddit, et al and in your server's PF when you have downtime.

It's a sad truth, but few statics on heavily populated servers are going to care how 'good' you are, they don't want to retrain a player in fights they've already done, so saying you have experience in current content matters more than anything. A Dragoon with some Dreadwyrm pieces that doesn't even stick Chaos Thrust is going to look more appealing than you at first glance if you can't say you've been to whatever content the majority of your server is on.